Beverley Samways

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Completely agree. This language amounts to a slow, insipid indoctrination that there are 'working people' on one side and everyone else on the other side. And we have to pick a side. It's divisive - and it's an intentional set up for cuts against the most vulnerable.

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space…. Laughed all the way through this article. Thought someone else might need the same at the end of A Tuesday. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@garyseconomics Absolutely. We know you won’t pull any punches. Let’s go!

Labour want to come on Gary’s Economics, should I let them?

@Neilsocialist @Keir_Starmer Thanks @Neilsocialist, for having the courage of your convictions.

MY RESIGNATION FROM THE LABOUR PARTY Having spent 35 years in the Labour Party yesterday’s disgusting attack on the sick and disabled was the last straw - this is my letter to @Keir_Starmer 👇

@LearningMet Congratulations 🥳

We are beyond delighted that our Prof Hatton has been awarded an NIHR Senior Investigator Award. Completely and wondrously deserved. 🎉❤️ nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-appo…

The Prime Minister was unable to answer a simple question today about why a disabled person who needs help to eat, wash and manage toilet needs could no longer get PIP under his proposals. The Government must drop this cruel proposal or it’ll face the mother of all rebellions.

Just found this in a post-incident debrief form for patients in a NHS mental health unit. You're detained under the MHA and you've been restrained, where would this debrief question take you... 'In your mind, what led to the incident?' 'In your mind...'

It feels too bizarre to be true - but our labour government is taking money off the most vulnerable to put into a war machine...

In our current season, we're exploring how trauma-informed care can be applied in organisations supporting people with severe learning disabilities. Come and listen and we'd love to hear your thoughts...

I met with the team from The Loddon School for a conversation about trauma and learning disabilities. Check it out here: On The Spectrum Podcast - Ep. 11 Dr Beverley Samways, Unique Connections youtu.be/OwyRzGJI5aw?si… via @YouTube

So many great conversations with senior staff doing amazing work @swalss_uk this morning. If we didn’t get a chance to connect, just reach out….

Currently coding restraint policies from NHS mental health units to investigate how they are incorporating Seni's Law requirements for people with learning disabilities... and came across this phrase: 'All staff must understand the mechanisms of death in restraint'🤯 I mean...

Excellent work @RightfulLives Thank you for articulating so well what I was spluttering to myself about when I first read this... 👌

Incredibly helpful to distinguish these. the mixing of these two things up actually erodes culture over time.

This pragmatic honesty is refreshing… many of us in the care sector are busting a gut to facilitate the secure employment of gifted migrant workers we desperately need. But we’re working against the grain… the narrative and the system needs reforming. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@MorrisonBeth This is infuriating - and the idea that banning a word somehow alters what something actually is.

A 7 yr old Non speaking child has Epilepsy, GDD & "challenging behaviour" She goes to a "den" when she is "angry" and the door is locked. I ask "how does she get in the den?" Head says "she's supported in" Restrained? "We don't use that word here" #CalumsLaw

Lovely day out for us at Unique Connections #sua2024 as Start Up For Good finalists 😊🎉🙌🏽

@scottygb They've entered the meta meta meta verse. They should probably have a press release about that reading, 'we are having an internal inquiry about worrying levels of introspection'.

A BBC news reporter stood outside the BBC on BBC Breakfast saying that the BBC had not responded to a request for comment from BBC News about a BBC presenter being axed from a BBC show.